The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-10-18
STAIN AN AWFUL LIAR.
HIS STORIES or HIS FATHhR'. ,RIMEs
PROVED TO BE FdLAi

An Abb Ger stain and Cromwell In The Dex.
ter Bask Case-The Tive Men stain Said
hts Father Poisoned Proved 60 Have
Died while Underreias nm Operation.
BANGOR, Oct. IA despatch from Fox.
boro. Mass, is to the effect that the wife Of
oliver Cromwell one Of the men now In jail
here charged with the murder OF Cashier Bar,
ron OF the Dexter Bank, can produce an &C.
count book covering tho period between 1878
and 1882, which shows that Cromwell was al
work hauling hay for Bradford Curtis In Med,
field, Mass, at the time OF the Dexter Bank
tragedy, thus proving an abb for her husband.
Cromwell told the correspondent Of THE Bun
to-day that this IL not moro than ho expected
all along.
Another despatch from Franklin. Mass, to.
day says that an examinatio OF David l.
Stains accounts shows charge for repairing
q pair OF boots for Patrick Martin Of MedHeld
Mass. on Feb: %, 1879. the very date Of the
ssSIns ana fQiIS%lns sSs 2aa; stain, xSs s,
the s dsspstch s aid very coolly ~n0 'A'"a
That is No sTrprisse ct tS me. 1t 10 Just what
? Tss a HON T JOSIAH .Srosby Stains counsel,
me that he thought these books would show
ouna snbec.
Of general rdicule. the story being. as your
on 81 sa ssd At hs s q Ss pae
which have been circulating It. The President
ofthe Dexter bank Is very sure that Barron
that theory. because sIfiicient cause f Tor
suicide has never been clearly shown,
sGS1Gs 9S stain S as fS IT,
h ha Ss aY Meded ss
ber in 1877, and that during that time stain
was not away from home.
says he S wont on one Q, the pTelimlnSry srips %
Dexter With his father and Leyes
Rws sr Lsvse n nes
saw. him in January. 1878 when he said no was
working case against his father for Detective
=, Leyelle says the young man was in Nstick at
the %s a Of 1T Win psd oo %hs he ssH
open ers x Stain IN 9esed married daughter o,
body who Knows my brother. Charley knows
hsa ars but s tss VI. as S
to his iawy si IN pexter to-day his account
at the time inn ' 81 The Dexter hant robbery '
70 sssr h al bs hs
door we're To Killing 81 poison q George
and RsHo II his neigh
young Stain an awful liar. at least in all no
said about these two cases.
Young Stain says that his father gave Mr..
Hawant drink Of whiskey dosed with arsenic.
Of Medfield shows that Mr. Hawant died on
May 1s. 1874. OF canSerous tumor. ,Jsmos
der the surgeons knife, ampptation OF the leg
having been undertaken as last resort
George Steele. who was another victim of
whiskey and arsenic. according to young
Stain, died at the City Hospital In Boston on
March IL. 1871, of cancer in the face, death fol-
lowing two or three days after an operation.
Poison had nothing to DO Nth his death Hts
Of about % YEARS; said thrt she believed az the
Her father was acquainted with Stain the
farm.
The town records show that Catherine g.
Stain. one Of the elder Stains wives. died Of
heart disease on Jan. 16. 1876. Young Stain
says that his father slowly IN led her BY poison.
A reporter called on Dr.. Richardson. who ct.
perfectly; thatshe certainly died Of heart dis:
ease and that there were no symptoms OF
poisoning.